Sell online? Your customer base just increased by almost two million. Well, all right, not "just", but, according to The Guardian, Internet users rose by 5%, or 1.9 million, to 38.8 million over the last year to May. This boost in numbers reflects...
Are Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr starting to look a bit old hat to you? Wishing you could do something a bit newer and groovier with your online presence? Then it could be time to look at Foursquare. If this geo-location craze had thus far passed...
It was over a year ago that we first heard about Facebook, the movie, and now, at last... a trailer. Not that it, nor the accompanying official website is letting much slip, yet. Those who sit through the trailer will be treated to some corkers of...
Many thanks to the Wall for pointing us towards Eloqua's Social Media Playbook [PDF] - "playbook", we assume, because while a workbook entails effort, everything to do with web 2.0 is, of course, fun fun fun! Eloqua is a big-bucks customer...
We were approached by Blanka - who impressed us so much, we employed her! - and asked how she could showcase her photography and art. Our solution was a simple, yet professional website that displayed her images in an attractive and uncomplicated...
While we are on the subject of surveys (see our post on how few small businesses in the UK have websites), how about this one? A recent Citibank/GfK Roper survey in the USA found that 76% of small businesses are not using social media to promote...
Case: Vincent House is a residential house based in west London, providing medium and long term accommodation. Their website was functional, yet very basic and they required a site that would allow them to expand and enhance the marketing and...
A bid to stimulate the local west London economy has prompted web agency Notting Hill Biz to offer free website design to small businesses. Read full article »
Here at Notting Hill Biz, we recently commissioned a piece of research the results of which amazed us. Having heard that 44% of small businesses in the USA have no website, we thought we'd check the situation here in the UK. Sadly, our hunch was...
Last week we read the news (online, probably) that for the first time, the national spend on online advertising had exceeded that on TV advertising. Now, a new piece of research from telecommunications provider ntl suggests that you get a lot more...
Social media is a really fun area to work in because it's such a new field that one is constantly being surprised by innovations. Take the Facebook status bar - that field where you type in a short message to let all your friends know what you've...
As I've said before, it seems like Google announces something new almost every day or so. With all the excitement of Google Wave's initial invitations going out, it could be easy to miss a few of their less prominent launches. One interesting new...
Suppose you went shopping for a designer bag on the High Street one day. You head towards the Louis Vuitton shop, but before you go in, you see another bag shop next door. Something catches your eye, and you go home not with the Vuitton bag you had...
Well, we had a great time on Friday, hosting a coffee morning as part of Macmillan Cancer Support's World's Biggest Coffee Morning. It was great to see so many people! We caught up with old friends as well as meeting quite a few new ones. But of...
Word spreads fast on Twitter, and how does it spread best? Through the power of the 'retweet'. To retweet (or 'RT' as it is called on Twitter, due to its defining character-limit) is simply the act of repeating someone else's post. It implies a...
When a website does everything right, you find yourself wanting to tell others about it. That's just what I've been doing recently with the online garden store Crocus.co.uk. Great websites are the ones where you hardly notice the user experience...